Architecture Photos
While sorting out my family’s photographs I put my Dad’s architecture pictures to one side. I recently took time to study them properly and was really excited by what I found. My Dad studied architecture…
A couple of days in London
Maurice Broomfield’s ‘New Look’ at Industry: photographs from post-war Britain At the Science Museum. See all the images on the Maurice Broomfield website (via I like). Gilbert & George and The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller…
British Seaside Holiday Cabins
I’m not sure what to call these cabins. I keep finding them on trips to the seaside. Most recently on the East Yorkshire Coast. View all cabin photos. East Yorkshire Coast Seaton Point, Northumberland Belhaven,…
Great Grandparents and the Forth Bridge
My Great Grandparents look young, this photo could have been taken around the time they were married in 1908. I can only imagine how spectacular the Forth Bridge was at that time, it’s still an…
Architecture Books
My parents are clearing out their house in preparation for retirement and a big move. I am trying hard not to transfer the piles of unwanted stuff to my flat. My Dad’s architecture books were…
Photobooth Friday
I’m a fan of Hula Seventy‘s Photobooth Friday. This is the first time I have found a photobooth picture in a second hand shop and in true Hula Seventy style I’m calling her Joan. Taken…
Ready to hang white magic crossover curtains
It makes me happy that this came from a charity shop. Granted that the woman behind the counter didn’t know how an empty curtain box got into the shop, perhaps it had some shoes in…
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Derelict house in the Yorkshire Dales
New year in the Yorkshire Dales exploring a derelict house just outside a small village on a quiet country lane. Nothing much remained apart from fixtures and fittings but they hinted at a once loved,…
British bingo hall carpets
I came across the Casino Carpet Gallery by Die is Cast (via Apartment Therapy). David G Schwartz “In a strange way, though, it’s sublime work of art, rivalling any expressionist canvas of the past century….